Pomeroy Plans 61000 Bond for Stadium Pool and Voc Ed
Pomeroy school board votes to place a $61,000 bond issue on the November ballot for a football stadium a swimming pool and a vocational agriculture building plus equipment. If approved taxes likely about two mills to repay. land purchase from the Russells enables the plan. Other topics include teacher contracts and school opening dates with a half day Friday and full staff by Monday.
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Pomeroy
Board of Education
Ralston Russell
Pomeroy High School
Russell
William A. Smith
Pomeroy School
Pomery Chamber Chief Resigns for Fidelity Company Post
Ed H. Condon resigned as district official of Ashland Refining Co after three years in Pomery Ohio. He will lead supervisory roles with the Fidelity Company in Meigs County. During his stay he led civic efforts and served as Pomery Chamber of Commerce president this year.
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Pomeroy
Ed H. Condon
Ashland Refining Co
Meigs County
Fidelity Company
Condon
Pomeroy Chamber of Commerce
Weaver-Nuptial Serenade for Racine Couple at Home
Nearly 100 friends gathered at the Annie Curtis apartment to serenade Mr and Mrs Wallace Weaver after their wedding this week. The ceremony was conducted by Reverend Shelton in Racine. The bride is Aline Holter of Minersville and the groom is a Racine resident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Racine
Wallace Weaver
Annie Curtis
Drivers to Secure Licenses This Month
Charles Spencer Pomeroy, deputy registrar of motor vehicles, said new drivers licenses will not be issued until Monday September 8. Permits may be secured Monday and thereafter during September, due to a legal change adjusting the opening date.
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Pomeroy
Charles Spencer
Pomeroy Meigs County Considers One Mill Levy
County commissioners vote to place a five year one mill levy before Meigs County voters in November to pay roughly thirty thousand dollars in old county bills. They also discussed a bond issue to replace the condemned county infirmary but took no action.
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Pomeroy
Meigs County
Kanauga Schools Set to Open Friday
Kanauga notes that schools will start Friday September 5 with Ronald Williams as principal and Mary Love teaching the grades. Several local residents are mentioned visiting relatives while others face illness, moves, and work in nearby cities.
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Kanauga
Omar Fowler
Northup
Verne Berridge
Ronald Williams
Mary Love
Addie Balderson
Biggins
Stewart
New Call For Six Men To Report For Selective Service
Pomeroy local Selective Service Board announces six men must report for selective training on September 25. The notice outlines mandatory military training intake and eligibility follow ups.
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Pomeroy
Selective Service Board
Freshmen Ducking Ceremony Disturbed by River Splash
Traditional middleport ducking on the Ohio River saw Fred Klein, a sophomore in charge of activities, fall in and be fully immersed. Several juniors who had avoided initiation for two years were finally caught and initiated. Weather favored the participants as locals watched along the bank.
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Middleport
Ohio River
Fred Klein
Goose Run Personal And Social Mention
Sunday guests of Mr and Mrs Elwood North included their sons Robert and Gene of Barberton. Bonnie North visited her sister Mrs Thelma Brooks Hollister. Denny Norths 10th birthday was celebrated with a chicken dinner hosted by Hod Gill. Various relatives joined the gathering across Murray City Hollister Portmouth Pittsburgh Hamilton Bolivar and Dayton localities.
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Goose Run
Elwood North
Robert
Gene
Barberton
Bonnie North
Thelma Brooks
Hollister
Hod Gill
Denny
Mary Shafer
Mick Anderson
Chris Waldeck
Murray City
Charlotte Brooks
Lloyd North
Shirley
Glenna
Dawn
John Danko
Modoc
Alfred Darby
Mont Anderson
Scythe Williams
Whitmore
Hamilton
Grace Burgess
Portsmouth
Mable
Eileen Martin
Pittsburgh
William Johnson
Lawrence Gill
Bolivar
Westley Shaffer
Dayton
School Opens In Middleport On Hot First Day
Pupils greeted the opening of the Middleport school year with routine activities despite extreme heat. Coach Paul Trittschuh led the football squad as preparations moved toward the Rutland opener on September 19. The marching band under Gordon Harris and R. E. McKay drilled in late afternoon. New resident Earl Knight moved his family to S Fifth Ave. Teachers Louise Drake and Elizabeth Ann Newman will reside with local families.
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Middleport
Paul Trittschuh
Gordon Harris
R. E. McKay
Rutland
Earl Knight
Harrisonville
Talbott
S. Fifth Ave
Louise Drake
Waterford
R. B. Laughead
Elizabeth Ann Newman
Idaho
A. W. McKay
Lois Cecil
Amesville
Grogan
Second Ave
Bradbury Social and Brief Personal Notes
Bradbury social notes list visits and guests from Rock Springs Ravenna and Chicago. Clergy Rev Garvin preached at the church and Rev J P Miller departed for Indiana and then Lexington to enter a Bible College. Thurman Carsey of Dayton visits while Mrs Sanford Dodson is ill.
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Geneva Joachim
Jean
Rock Springs
Wilbur Pierce
George Waters
Zanesville
Joe Gardner
Charles Pierce
Chicago
J. M. Carsey
Garvin
Cleveland
Charles Neal
Ravenna
J. P. Miller
Indiana
Lexington
Thurman Carsey
Dayton
Morgan Carsey
Sanford Dodson
Bridge Tender Wears Boots as Precaution
POMEROY readers learn that Lew Burford, a bridge attendant, wore boots after an incident at the Pomeroy Bridge. Jed Webster, the bridge superintendent, asked Burford about restrictions on boot wear for toll takers. Burford said he killed a rattlesnake on the concrete island between toll houses, claiming it likely dropped from a West Virginia cattle truck that had crossed recently.
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Pomeroy
Lew Buford
Pomeroy Bridge
Jed Webster
Webster
Burford
West Virginia
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R. H. Chandler
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